Communications Biology (Jul 2021)

Structural plasticity of mumps virus nucleocapsids with cryo-EM structures

  • Hong Shan,
  • Xin Su,
  • Tianhao Li,
  • Yuqi Qin,
  • Na Zhang,
  • Liuyan Yang,
  • Linsha Ma,
  • Yun Bai,
  • Lei Qi,
  • Yunhui Liu,
  • Qing-Tao Shen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-02362-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 4, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Shan et al. describes the high-resolution structures of Nucleoprotein in two different oligomeric states and four different higher-order helical structures. They further describe the structural rearrangements required to transition between the different helical assemblies obtained, highlighting the basis for structural plasticity among different MuV nucleocapsids.